The Cambridge Companion to Jazz

by Edited by Mervyn Cooke , David Horn

• ISBN13: 9780521663885
• ISBN10: 0521663881
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-27
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The vibrant world of jazz may be viewed from many perspectives, from social and cultural history to music analysis, from economics to ethnography. It is challenging and exciting territory. This volume of nineteen specially commissioned essays provides informed and accessible guidance to the challenge, offering the reader a range of expert views on the character, history and uses of jazz. The book starts by considering what kind of identity jazz has acquired and how, and goes on to discuss the crucial practices that define jazz and to examine some specific moments of historical change and some important issues for jazz study. Finally, it looks at a set of perspectives that illustrate different 'takes' on jazz - ways in which jazz has been valued and represented.

Table of Contents

List of plates	vii
Notes on contributors	viii
Acknowledgements	xii
A brief chronology of jazz	xiii
The word jazz	1	(8)
Krin Gabbard
Part One Jazz times
The identity of jazz	9	(24)
David Horn
The jazz diaspora	33	(22)
Bruce Johnson
The jazz audience	55	(14)
Jed Rasula
Jazz and dance	69	(14)
Robert P. Crease
Part Two Jazz practices
Jazz as musical practice	83	(13)
Travis A. Jackson
Jazz as cultural practice	96	(18)
Bruce Johnson
Jazz improvisation	114	(19)
Ingrid Monson
Spontaneity and organisation	133	(20)
Peter J. Martin
Jazz among the classics, and the case of Duke Ellington	153	(24)
Mervyn Cooke
Part Three Jazz changes
1959: the beginning of beyond	177	(25)
Darius Brubeck
Free jazz and the avant-garde	202	(15)
Jeff Pressing
Fusions and crossovers	217	(84)
Stuart Nicholson
Part Four Jazz soundings
Learning jazz, teaching jazz	255	(15)
David Ake
History, myth and legend: the problem of early jazz	270	(16)
David Sager
Analysing jazz	286	(15)
Thomas Owens
Part Five Jazz takes
Valuing jazz	301	(20)
Robert Walser
The jazz market	321	(11)
Dave Laing
Images of jazz	332	(15)
Krin Gabbard
Notes	347	(10)
Works cited	357	(20)
Principal musicians cited	377	(12)
Index	389